Writing in Books: Los últimos días de Stefan Zweig

As a memento of an unforgettable getaway to Madrid and the usual visit to CaixaForum, I have this exceptional book, a present from Laura and Silky, who have an outstanding ability to always buy the perfect gift. Los últimas días de Stefan Zweig (2012) is the story written by Laurent Seksik (with amazing watercolors by Guillaume Sorel) recounting the last days of the Austrian writer who fled from his home country due to his Jewish origin and who ended up committing suicide alongside his second wife Charlotte Elisabeth Altman in Petrópolis, convinced that Nazism would end up destroying the earth after Singapore fell in February 1942. 

The story escapes drama and indulges in the sensitivity of a few days loaded with nostalgia for the old country that Zweig considered lost due to the devastating takeover by the nazi ideology. A tragedy told with a deep human touch.

Thanks girls, from time to time I like to revisit the story and discover new gems both in the text and the watercolors.